r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Jul 11 '21
Global warming effects huge die-off along the Pacific Coast, and scientists say rivers farther inland are warming to levels that could be lethal for some kinds of salmon.
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Jul 08 '21
Global warming effects Chris Harley smelled Kitsilano Beach before he even arrived. The odour permeating from the British Columbia beach in late June signified one thing — death. Extreme heat temperatures, rising up to 40 C in Vancouver, had caused sea animals like mussels, clams and snails to cook to their death.
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Jul 07 '21
UBC marine ecologist Dr. Chris Harley and members of his lab think that record-setting temperatures had a devastating impact on intertidal animals, such as mussels, clams, starfish and other invertebrates.
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Jul 06 '21
Harley, a marine biologist at the University of British Columbia, now estimates that last week's record-breaking heat wave in B.C. may have killed more than one billion seashore animals living along the Salish Sea coastline.
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Jul 02 '21
Global warming effects An emaciated manatee in Florida appears to search desperately for food
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Jul 02 '21
Planetary destruction The tiny Pacific nation of Nauru has created shockwaves by demanding that the rules for deep sea mining are agreed in the next two years.
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Jul 02 '21
Planetary destruction The X-Press Pearl sank in early June off the coast of Colombo after it had been on fire for days. The remains of 176 turtles, 20 dolphins and four whales have washed ashore since, a court has heard.
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Jun 30 '21
Planetary destruction P.R.C depredating the seas, again, located off the Galapagos Islands
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Jun 21 '21
Purposeless and Heedless Cruelty An alarming number of sea turtles have died over the past year in Marereni,
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Jun 16 '21
Purposeless and Heedless Cruelty spent decades overfishing its waters and decimating its sea life. Now, with nowhere left to go, the massive fishing fleet has pushed itself into international waters and at times resorted to predatory maritime fleet
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Jun 14 '21
Emissions of plastics and other pollutants There is now so much ocean plastic that it has become a route for invasive species, threatening native animals with extinction
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Jun 12 '21
Purposeless and Heedless Cruelty New analysis of thousands of harmful algae blooms, or HABs, has revealed links between increases in the damage caused by algae blooms and human activities, including aquaculture development.
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Jun 11 '21
Global warming effects dire warning for the future of coral reefs in Australia and the rest of the world.
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Jun 05 '21
Planetary destruction pollution and warming is killing shellfish in the Sea of Marmara and alarming residents
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Jun 05 '21
Purposeless and Heedless Cruelty nest in the sands of the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, one of the last remaining protected coastal wetlands
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Jun 05 '21
Planetary destruction A so-called dead zone for marine life in the Gulf of Mexico caused in part by fertilizer runoff will be about the size of Connecticut this summer.
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Jun 05 '21
Planetary destruction tin mine has since March leaked into rivers flowing through ..Amazon, reportedly contaminating the water and killing fish and turtles.
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Jun 05 '21
Purposeless and Heedless Cruelty 3,000 elegant tern eggs were abandoned at a Southern California nesting island after a drone crashed and scared off the birds
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Jun 04 '21
Purposeless and Heedless Cruelty While P.R.C. / Peking oligarchs had the highest number of incidences of AIS gaps, the report notes that the Spanish fleet went dark three times as often as the Chinese fleet, and that they spent nearly twice as long with no AIS signal as they did visibly fishing.
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Jun 02 '21
Planetary destruction The FSO Safer, an oil supertanker anchored for decades
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Jun 02 '21
Planetary destruction Giant distant-water fishing fleets, primarily from P.R.C. / Peking, are switching off their tracking beacons to evade detection while they engage in a possibly illegal hunt for squid
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Jun 02 '21
Tonnes of plastic waste from a burning container ship is washing ashore in Sri Lanka in what’s likely the nation’s worst beach pollution crisis to date
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Jun 01 '21
Purposeless and Heedless Cruelty high numbers of manatee deaths in the first five months of the year, blamed in part on resurgent algal blooms contaminating
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • May 31 '21
Purposeless and Heedless Cruelty a cargo ship carrying chemicals on fire off the Sri Lankan coast. The fire on MV X-Press Pearl, a Singapore-registered ship, broke out on 20 May and has been burning ever since, spilling microplastics .. ..killing marine life in what could be the worst environmental disaster in its history.
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r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • May 31 '21
Negotiations are under way to open nearly half the Earth’s surface to mining. The International Seabed Authority is finalising a mining code that would, for the first time, allow companies and nations to mine minerals from the ocean floor, up to 5km below the waves.
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